Presentations

Nikolaos Bezirgiannis — EcoTruck: An agent system for paper recycling

Nikolaos is a student at Utrecht University. He is involved in a research project called
EcoTruck, a system to optimize the collection of paper for recycling (think dynamic
truck scheduling, vehicle route optimization, and real-time progress updates), written
in Erlang.

Nikolaos is going to tell us about his experiences using Erlang for such a system that
falls outside the traditional telecom/signalling domain.

Ward is a lead developer at TTY Internet Solutions. In his spare time, he developed
Erltricity: An Erlang/OTP Thinkgear Connector Client. Thinkgear is a brainwave sensor, a device
that plugs into your computer on one side and into your head on the other!

Ward is going to give a presentation and a demo of this device and the Erlang interface he authored.

Michel Rijnders — Introducing the TTY search engine

Michel is Head of Development at TTY Internet Solutions.
TTY has done a lot of work integrating search engines (Sphinx, Lucene, and Solr) into sites such as 2dehands, NationaleVacaturebank, and Jaap. They kept bumping into the same problems. Problems in areas where Erlang shines like fault tolerance and distribution. That's why they started the development of a new search engine in Erlang as an R&D project. Eventually, TTY plans to release it as open source.